BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Program in Islamic Law - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Program in Islamic Law REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171001 DTSTAMP:20170926T180235Z CREATED:20170926T180235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T180235Z UID:10000864-1506729600-1506815999@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:CFP: Association for Iranian Studies 2018 Biennial Conference DESCRIPTION:The Program Chair has begun assigning panels and papers for adjudication\, a process that should take about two weeks. If you can compete a submission in that time\, the Program Chair should be able to route your submission for adjudication with the understanding that proposals received by 9/15 will have priority for inclusion in the conference program based on available space. This is the same policy as the 2016 conference. We had no issues with space last time and do not anticipate any this time. Members who initiated their propsal submission by the deadline\, but ran into technical problems that had to be resolved after the deadline\, will be held harmless. \nDetails at: https://associationforiranianstudies.org/conferences/2018 URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-association-for-iranian-studies-2018-biennial-conference/ CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171018 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171019 DTSTAMP:20170926T183013Z CREATED:20170926T183013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T183013Z UID:10000870-1508284800-1508371199@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:CFP: Law at the Crossroads: Le Droit a la Croisée des Chemins DESCRIPTION:For thousands of years the place where the City of Toronto is located has been a crossroad where many peoples have met and had fruitful exchanges. According to some Indigenous knowledge keepers\, the word “Toronto” comes from the Wendat term for a fishing weir constructed of sticks standing in the water. Lake and river fishing has been an important activity for the area’s many Indigenous peoples\, including Huron-Wendat\, Haudenosaunee\, Mississauga and Chippewa. The Indigenous knowledge frameworks and laws of the peoples of this area encourage a multilayered understanding of an item such as a fishing weir in terms of its natural\, sacred\, practical and social meanings. \nThe area continues to be home to many Indigenous people from all over Canada and beyond\, but Toronto has also been shaped by immigration flows from many parts of the world\, with about half of its current residents being born outside of Canada. \nThe Law and Society Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association hope that our joint meeting in Toronto will be creative and fruitful\, in keeping with the traditional use of this land as a gathering place\, and that visitors to the area will take the opportunity to make new connections not only with one another but also with diverse local communities.\nThis year’s Program Committee is Chair is Mariana Valverde\, University of Toronto. \nWe invite the submission of Individual Papers and/or Session proposals. Papers and panels need not be centered on the conference theme. Proposals on any law and society topic are welcome.\nYou will find the Call at www.lawandsociety.org/Toronto2018/toronto2018.html \nIn the Call you will find more information about the theme\, submission instructions\, and more. We will be adding more meeting information as time progresses. \nThe deadline for proposal submission is October 18\, 2017. \nRegistration will begin in early February\, 2018. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-law-at-the-crossroads-le-droit-a-la-croisee-des-chemins/ CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180116 DTSTAMP:20180122T184702Z CREATED:20180122T184702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T184702Z UID:10000805-1515974400-1516060799@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:The RCSL-SDJ Lisbon Meeting 2018: "Law and Citizenship Beyond The States” DESCRIPTION:The conference will discuss\, among other topics of sociology of law and justice\, the contribution of law to the power of citizens\, at a time of increasing competition between state law\, once the main source of people’s rights\, and multiple global and local normativities. Proposals due January 15. \n​The meeting is co-sponsored by the Sociology of Law and Justice Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association. It is organized by DINÂMIA’CET-IUL\, a research unit of ISCTE-IUL \, which gives the Local Organizing Committee its institutional framework and administrative support\, in partnership with the following partner research units: CES (Coimbra)\, CICS.NOVA (Braga\, Lisbon)\, CIES (ISCTE-IUL\, Lisbon)\, and CRIA (Lisbon\, Braga)\, as well as with the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati). On top of these academic partnerships\, we pretend also to involve personalities and entities from outside the world of science\, for this meeting to be itself\, as far as possible\, an experience of citizenry beyond the states. \n​It is the second initiative of RCSL during the year 2018\, since the RCSL will also participate in the ISA World Congress in Toronto\, 15-21 July 2018. Other recent RCSL meetings took place in Vienna\, July 2016\, within the framework of the 3rd ISA-Forum\, and México City\, June 2017\, where RCSL was a sponsor of the International Meeting on Law and Society. \n​It is the third meeting of the recently created Sociology of Law and Justice Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association\, which held their first meeting in January 2016 in Coimbra\, and a second meeting in February 2017\, in Braga. \n​The meeting will be bilingual English / Portuguese. Plenary sessions will be held in English. Sessions in other languages may be be authorized by the Organizing Committee. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-rcsl-sdj-lisbon-meeting-2018-law-and-citizenship-beyond-the-states-2/ CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180131 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180201 DTSTAMP:20180122T191701Z CREATED:20180122T191701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T191701Z UID:10000806-1517356800-1517443199@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:CFP: Religious Marriages in the Mediterranean DESCRIPTION:This multidisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers who have engaged in research on religious marriages in the Mediterranean. Papers may focus on\, but are not limited to\, one or\nmore of the following themes: \n1. Exploring the legal and social interaction between religious and civil marriages in the Mediterranean\, whether contemporary or historical perspective (colonial and postcolonial). \n2. Investigating the non-apparent connections between different religions within and without marriage legislation (Sunni\, Shia\, Catholic\, Orthodox\, Coptic\, Jewish\, Hindu…)\, including papers on\nmixed marriages. \n3. How human/civil rights discourses blend and/or conflict with other forms of theological\, moral and/or customary discourses on religious marriages. \n4. Diverse ways of concluding and/or celebrating religious marriages in the Mediterranean. \n5. Problematization and politicization of religious marriages in the Mediterranean. \nOrganizers:\nIbtisam Sadegh (University of Amsterdam) \nDavid Zammit (University of Malta) \nSusan Hirsch (George Mason University) \nPapers (7\,000-8\,000 words)\, will be considered for publication in a special issue of the international\, peer-reviewed Journal of Mediterranean Studies (ISSN: 1016-3476)\, published by the Mediterranean Institute\, University of Malta and available electronically through Project Muse. \nUpon request\, limited travel and accommodation funds (two nights) may be available for short-listed candidates who cannot apply for funding from their own universities. Please submit your request for funding with your paper proposal. \nDeadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2018\nAbstracts of 200-300 words are to be submitted via e-mail: i.sadegh@uva.nl with ‘abstract’ and your last name in the subject heading. \nMore information: Religious Marriage Conference Blurb URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-religious-marriages-in-the-mediterranean/ CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180227 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180301 DTSTAMP:20180122T193036Z CREATED:20180122T193036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T193036Z UID:10000807-1519754400-1519840799@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:CFP: Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) DESCRIPTION:WOCMES Seville 2018 will be held in the capital of Andalusia on 16-22 July 2018\, serving as a meeting point to present\, debate and share a wide range of information on the latest studies concerning the Middle East\, encompassing diverse perspectives\, from conflict analysis and resolution to migrations\, water\, the environment\, culture\, news media and studies on Al-Andalus. \nThe World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) is the biggest encounter of world experts on disciplines related to this vast region whether contemporary or ancient. The Congress takes place every four years in a different capital. The fifth edition will be organised by the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation in collaboration with the University of Seville whose headquarters will serve as the main venue for the event. \nIn the wake of the four previous congresses – Mainz 2002 (Germany)\, Amman 2006 (Jordan)\, Barcelona 2010 (Spain) and Ankara 2014 (Turkey)\, WOCMES Seville 2018 will focus on the relationship between the three cultures and\, given that it is the Foundation’s raison d’être\, the Andalusí legacy and the roots of the city that will host this major international gathering. \nThe Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation calls for submissions for the fifth edition of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) which will be held in Seville\, Spain\, from July 16th to the 22nd\, 2018. \nAll submissions of proposals must be made through the Wocmes Seville 2018 website at http://wocmes2018seville.org/ \nThe system will close at midnight (CET) on February 28th\, 2018. \nThemes: Al-Andalus; Ancient Middle East; Christian Studies; Conflict Analysis and Resolution; Contemporary Middle East; Cultural Studies; Economics; Gender Studies; International Relations and International Law; Islamic Studies; Jewish Studies; Linguistic and Literature; Media Studies; Medieval Studies; Mediterranean Studies; Migration Studies; Nationality / Identities and Ethnicity; Normative Phenomena and Law; North Africa; Politics; Sepharad and Sephardic Diaspora; Scientific Culture; Translation studies; Urban and Regional Studies; Water\, Agriculture and the Environment. \nMajor disciplines: Anthropology; Arabic and Islamic Studies; Archaeology; Architecture; Art; Communication / Information; Demography; Economics; Economic and Social Development; Education; Egyptology; Environmental Studies; Ethnology; Gender Studies; Geography; Hebrew and Jewish Studies; History; International Relations; Languages and Literature; Law; Library Studies; Linguistics; Museum Sciences; Musicology; Philology; Philosophy; Political Sciences; Sociology; Theology; Urban Planning. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-fifth-world-congress-for-middle-eastern-studies-wocmes/ LOCATION:Seville\, Spain CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180302 DTSTAMP:20180227T133043Z CREATED:20180227T133043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T133043Z UID:10000812-1519862400-1519948799@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:CFP:: 3rd Annual Legal Studies Graduate Conference: Law\, Language and the Archive DESCRIPTION:Brown Legal Studies 2018 CFP \nLanguage is a conduit of information\, a reflection of the social and political constructions of bygone eras\, as well as our present. It can be deployed in the service of beauty\, expression\, liberation\, punishment\, control\, and /or shame. Moreover\, language\, an essential tool of the law\, is ordered and organized according to an often contradictory sedimentation of norms\, assumptions\, and customs. As legal scholars\, we employ a number of methodologies to confront and interpret the messy entanglements of language\, law\, and lived experience. The legal archive\, like law and language\, “straddles the material and the ideational\,” sometimes tracking these myriad modes of legal speech\, sometimes itself symbolically producing ‘the law’ as a heavily guarded and precise linguistic apparatus\, filled with loopholes and traps. \nThe Brown Legal Studies initiative invites paper submissions on the subject of “Law\, Language\, and the Archive” for its third annual graduate student conference. At a moment when important political and legal institutions in the United States are challenged from within and without\, our conference will consider the interaction of language and the law\, contemporarily and in broader historical and comparatist contexts\, and the ways we\, as scholars\, interact and interpret the language of the law in the archival sources we use. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-3rd-annual-legal-studies-graduate-conference-law-language-and-the-archive/ LOCATION:Brown University\, Providence\, RI CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180531 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180601 DTSTAMP:20180504T202919Z CREATED:20180504T202919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180504T202919Z UID:10000822-1527724800-1527811199@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:CFP: Criminalising Violent Pasts: Multiple Roots and Forgotten Pathways 1950s-2010s DESCRIPTION:Over the last half century\, discourses and practices connected to the idea that violent or dictatorial pasts should be marked as criminal have proliferated. A variety of actors – from victims groups to social movements\, to expert groups such as lawyers\, museums specialists and even economists – have contributed to the emergence and circulation of the notion that political violence could only be overcome through its criminalization in courts\, lustration procedures\, history writing\, activism or memorial sites. Produced across different fields of action and expertise\, this assumption has become dominant in the political and judicial sphere at a global level and has permeated many political cultures and everyday life practices.  Even where decriminalisation (amnesties\, pardons\, closure of archives) prevailed\, debates worked within the set of assumptions about the past established through this globally expanding paradigm. \nDespite its dominance\, we still lack a truly international history of its roots. This is in part because modern day practices of criminalisation often play down their own historicity. Coming of age at the so-called ‘end of history’\, their promoters came to see their application as a natural end point in the achievement of human rights\, democracy or good governance.  When histories are offered\, they too often provide a rather linear narrative that links these developments to – mainly Western – political processes established to address the legacies of Nazism after World War Two. Such accounts have also commonly resisted incorporation into broader frameworks supplied\, for example\, by histories of globalization\, neoliberalism or postcolonialism.  Only recently have a few authors sought to make sense of the emergence of the modern criminalisation paradigm in new ways\, connecting it\, for example\, to the rise of the homo economicus and a concomitant individualistic approach to human rights. \nThis conference seeks to explore the history of the (often forgotten) pathways and contested visions through which the criminalization paradigm developed. This conference welcomes contributions that explore the emergence of multiple\, potentially competitive visions of criminal pasts. Taking as its starting point the moment of an acceleration of decolonisation\, globalisation and de-Stalinisation in the 1950s\, we encourage papers that explore the variety of actors\, activisms and political projects that lay behind the global expansion of such ideas. Human rights organisations\, international legal associations\, post-colonial and Communist states\, all variously developed the idea of overcoming criminal pasts as they sought\, to legitimate new political projects\, reconceptualise the relationship between the individual and the state\, or seek collective or socio-economic justice for past wrongs. We welcome papers that\, for example\, address the complexity and interplay of these ideas in different arenas and seek to connect these phenomena to wider literatures. We are also wary of easy teleologies\, and are as interested in the histories of the marginalization of some visions\, as in the growing dominance of others. \nPapers might address the following topics: \nHistoricisation. How did processes of criminalisation/decriminalisation of fascism\, authoritarianism\, colonialism\, communism\, and other violent historical episodes evolve over time? What were their political/ideological roots and consequences\, and how did they influence each other? Which particular paradigms of criminalisation were internationalised or globalised from the 1950s? What turning points can we identify in the shift of these paradigms at international and regional levels (e.g. decolonisation in the 1960s\, the end of Cold War)? \nRethinking Paradigms. Are there new historical frameworks into which the history of criminalising violent pasts could be written? The history of neoliberalism? Or postcolonialism? Should it bring together traditions of scholarship\, which have often remained separate? (e.g. postcolonialism and communism; histories of the ‘semi-periphery’ with those from ‘the West’). \nRethinking ‘Third Wave Criminalisation’ (1980s-). How might these multiple histories help us understand the values and practices of ‘third wave criminalisation’ in new ways?  Which groups and alliances helped produce this? Were alternative visions of historical culpability marginalised\, or did they survive? Does such a historicisation enable us more fully to appreciate the variety of visions and practices that constitute this recent criminalisation paradigm? \nRethinking Actors. How did states\, social movements\, peace keepers\, or experts produce ideas about what should be criminalised and in which ways? How did actors generally unrecognised – such as socialist and other authoritarian states\, or professional groups such as economists –produce and globalise new paradigms? Do we over-privilege the role of western actors in this account? How do relevant actors change over time? (e.g. from states to non-state actors including private individuals and companies)? \nRethinking Chronologies. How did the meanings\, relevance and objects of criminalisation shift over time? How were specific crimes selected as subject to criminalisation at particular moments\, which were sidelined\, and why? How are the processes of criminalisation linked to processes of politicization or de-politicisation of past conflicts and violence? Was there a move from collective/ systemic criminalisation to one based around the idea of individual crime and responsibility? \nAbstracts of 300-500 words\, together with an accompanying short CV should be submitted to criminalisingviolentpasts@gmail.com  by 31 May 2018. The selected participants will be notified by the end of June 2018. Financial support for travel and accommodation is available\, but we ask that contributors also explore funding opportunities at their home institutions. \nThis conference is supported by the AHRC “Care for the Future” (UK) and Labex “Les Passés dans Le Présent” (FR) joint funded project The Criminalization of Dictatorial Pasts in Europe and Latin America in Global Perspective. \nhttps://criminalizationofdictatorialpasts.wordpress.com/ \n  URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-criminalising-violent-pasts-multiple-roots-and-forgotten-pathways-1950s-2010s/ CATEGORIES:Applications,Call for papers,conferences and workshops END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180802 DTSTAMP:20180518T185756Z CREATED:20180518T185756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180518T185756Z UID:10000980-1533081600-1533167999@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:CFP: Reception\, appropriation\, and innovation: Byzantium between the Christian and Islamic worlds. The 2nd Annual International Graduate Edinburgh Byzantine Conference DESCRIPTION:CFP: Reception\, appropriation\, and innovation: Byzantium between the Christian and Islamic worlds. The 2nd Annual International Graduate Edinburgh Byzantine Conference. (30 Nov – 1 Dec 2018) \nby Mathew Barber \nReception and appropriation (whether reuse\, imitation\, or variation) have long been recognised as necessary tools for the interpretation of Byzantine literature\, art\, architecture and archaeology\, while research on innovations is still at a relatively early stage. \nThe key theme of this conference is dialogue – dialogue between Byzantium and its neighbouring cultures. The conference will explore all three of the fundamental modes of dialogue and discourse (reception\, appropriation and innovation) between Byzantium and its neighbours during any time period from the 5th-15th c. Confirmed invited speakers include Professor Claudia Rapp (Vienna)\, Dr Andrew Marsham (Cambridge)\, and Father Justin Sinaites (Librarian of St. Catherine’s\, Mt. Sinai)\, in addition to confirmed internal speakers\, both Byzantinists and Islamicists. \nWe strongly encourage papers highlighting exchange in both directions\, Byzantium receiving from other cultures and/or others receiving from Byzantium. Possible topics include\, but are certainly not limited to: \n\nBefore the Christian and Islamic Worlds: reception and appropriation of Classical Greek or Latin heritage within Byzantium – perspectives from culture\, text\, legislation\, gender\, symbolism\, art\, etc.\nContemporary exchange and attempts at imitation (concepts of culture\, text\, gender\, legislation\, symbolism etc.) between Byzantium\, the Islamic World\, Latin Europe and imperial courts\nArtistic similarities (visual art\, sculpture\, painting\, etc.)\, whether as a result of promotion or prohibition\, as an expression or mode of cultural exchange or identification across East and West\nProduction\, circulation and demand for luxury goods or household artefacts as evidence for dialogue and/or interaction between Byzantium and its neighbours\nUrban layout and rural landscape: military\, civil and religious architecture in cities and countryside – common links and peculiarities between Byzantium and neighbouring powers\nInterdisciplinary approaches to interpretations of Byzantine (inter)action throughout the Mediterranean\, taking into account multiple types of primary source evidence\n\nThe deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 August\, and notification of acceptance will be communicated by mid-August. Please submit your abstract of no more than 300 words to edibyzpg@ed.ac.uk with your name and affiliation.  \nThere will be a small registration fee of £10\, and lunch will be provided on both days. We will aim to publish a selection of the papers in a peer-reviewed volume that will bring together the strongest contributions in each area in order to produce an edited volume of high-quality\, deep coherence and rich variety. \nThe Organising Committee\, \nMathew Barber\, Alasdair Grant\, Mark Huggins\, Matteo Randazzo\, Margherita Riso URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-reception-appropriation-and-innovation-byzantium-between-the-christian-and-islamic-worlds-the-2nd-annual-international-graduate-edinburgh-byzantine-conference/ CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190209 DTSTAMP:20190131T003427Z CREATED:20190131T003427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T003427Z UID:10001061-1549584000-1549670399@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:CFP for MESA 2019: Exploring Freedom\, Emancipation\, and Manumission in the Middle East DESCRIPTION:Enslavement and related asymmetric systems of power are relationships that operate on multiple levels. These include\, but are not limited to\, the interpersonal\, those negotiated within the social and cultural structure\, linguistics\, economy\, and law. How systems of slavery are justified and maintained reaches deeply into the question of humanity. Institutions of slavery employ emotional\, physical\, and psychological controls to define enslaved peoples along a spectrum of human\, yet “natural\,” slaves and dehumanized\, non-humans\, to delineate the free from the unfree. \nScholars of slavery have focused on asymmetrical power relationships from antiquity to the present\, yet what of freedom? Freedom\, and the process by which an unfree person becomes free\, is a similarly complex relationship with ancient roots. The concept of freedom is fluid cross-culturally\, with significant variety among definitions for classes of “free” people and language for the act of moving from enslaved to free. Freedom has often been positioned in opposition to slavery; however\, the purpose of manumission historically has not been to create social equality. Like slavery\, freedom\, manumission\, emancipation\, and abolition require significant social and psychological changes to the individual\, slaver\, and society as relationships are renegotiated. The resulting outcome creates a new status for the formerly enslaved\, often with a different set of labels\, social connections and varying levels of integration. These processes are ongoing today\, and remain incomplete. \nThis panel seeks new research on the institution of freedom in Islamicate societies from the seventh to the twentieth centuries. It invites papers that engage freedom\, the process of freedom through emancipation and manumission\, and abolition through different historical\, legal\, religious\, literary and other disciplinary lenses. Particular areas of interest include\, but are not limited to how these concepts interact with origin\, genealogy\, race/ethnicity\, social mobility\, gender\, political agency\, labor\, sexual ethics\, nationalism\, colonialism\, law\, and the arts. \nPlease submit an abstract of 300 to 400 words and a CV to Kathryn Hain (hainsontheroad@hotmail.com) and Lisa Nielson (len12@case.edu) by Friday\, February 8\, 2019. When submitting your abstract\, please use MESA 2019 in the subject line. Participants will receive panel decisions by February 13\, 2019. Panelists will be required to upload their abstract to the MESA site before February 15\, 2019. You must have a current MESA membership by this date in order to submit an abstract. MESA makes decisions about the program by the end of April 2019. The MESA annual conference takes place this year in New Orleans\, Louisiana\, November 14 – 17\, 2019. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-for-mesa-2019-exploring-freedom-emancipation-and-manumission-in-the-middle-east/ CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191107 DTSTAMP:20190905T124529Z CREATED:20190905T124529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190905T124529Z UID:10000889-1572998400-1573084799@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Second Islamicate Digital Humanities Network Members’ Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Islamicate Digital Humanities Network is hosting their second IDHN member’s meeting on Wednesday\, November 6th\, 2019. IDHN members will receive an invitation with the access code and link in the network’s newsletter. Guests can request an access code by sending an e-mail to info@idhn.org. The network welcomes contributions from both members and guests developing or employing digital methods in their research within the Islamicate Studies and Linguistics. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/second-islamicate-digital-humanities-network-members-meeting/ CATEGORIES:Call for papers,digital humanities,Due dates,Opportunities ORGANIZER;CN="Digital Islamicate Humanities":MAILTO:info@idhn.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191116 DTSTAMP:20191114T141517Z CREATED:20191114T141329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191114T141517Z UID:10000915-1573776000-1573862399@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Near Eastern Studies Graduate Student Conference\, UC Berkeley (13-14 Mar | UC Berkeley) DESCRIPTION:The Near Eastern Studies graduate students at UC Berkeley would like to invite the graduate students in your department to participate in the 2020 UC Berkeley Near Eastern Studies Graduate Student Conference. \nThe conference will take place on March 13–14\, 2020 on the UC Berkeley campus\, consisting of two days of thematically-organized panel sessions. Faculty will serve as the respondents for each of the panels. \nApplicants should submit an abstract of no more than 250 words by November 15th\, 2019. Please fill out the abstract submission form on our website. Paper presentations should be approximately 20 minutes in length\, which will be followed by a short\, discussant-led question and answer session. \nAs an interdisciplinary department\, we will accept submissions from any sub-discipline of Near Eastern Studies\, including\, but not limited to: history\, archaeology\, anthropology\, linguistics\, religion\, literature\, art/art history\, and/or architecture. \nPlease note\, however\, that the topic of any submitted paper must\, then\, be relevant to any of the cultures which have inhabited the broader Near East from the Neolithic to the Present\, from Morocco and al-Andalus in the West to Central Asia in the East\, and from Ethiopia in the South\, to the Caucasus in the North. \nPlease do not hesitate to contact us with any additional questions. For more information about registration\, travel\, and accommodation\, please visit our website. Questions about the conference should be directed to jagnes@berkeley.edu. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-near-eastern-studies-graduate-student-conference-uc-berkeley-13-14-mar-uc-berkeley/ LOCATION:LA CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191116 DTSTAMP:20191114T141517Z CREATED:20191114T141329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191114T141517Z UID:10001150-1573776000-1573862399@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: “Mosques\, power and politics” Workshop (22-24 January 2020 | University of Copenhagen) DESCRIPTION:Workshop Programme\n“Mosques\, power and politics”\nCopenhagen\, Denmark\n22-24 January 2020\nVenue: University of Copenhagen\, South Campus\nKaren Blixens Plads 8\, 2300 Copenhagen\, Denmark\nWorkshop theme: \nFor this workshop we address the changing politics of mosque building\, the different kinds of conflict surrounding the building of a mosque and the symbolic appropriation of territory by the mosque. The building of a mosque can be seen as a social transformative interaction and accounts for the many stakeholders involved in the construction of mosques (e.g.\, Muslim organizations\, international donors\, local politicians\, anti-Islam groups and other critics). As such\, the mosques and the politics of construction can be seen as microcosms of the discourse on Muslims in a country. \nConcerns with security\, extremism and visibility of Muslim institutions in the Nordic and Western European countries are causing “existential” difficulties for mosques. The state criticizes mosques and change the politics of religion with reference to incidents in mosques as in Denmark in 2016-18. This seminar will examine the power strategies used by national and local politicians\, examining national legislation and municipal planning on mosques\, and will investigate a number of concrete cases of contested mosque building. The operable questions are what are the political power dynamics at play in mosque building? Do the mosques challenge the existing models of state-religion-relations? How may mosques present and organize themselves to defuse these tensions of power? \nPaper abstracts of 300 words and a short CV to be submitted to Niels Valdemar Vinding\, lbm993@hum.ku.dk\, on November 15th 2019 at the latest. \nRead more on: https://mosques.ku.dk/nordic-mosques/ \nExpenses \nThe project covers reasonable expenses from transport. Hotel and meals are already booked. Please contact Niels Valdemar Vinding\, lbm993@hum.ku.dk\, if you have expenses. \nWorkshop series \nThis is the second in a series of three workshops on Nordic Mosques in Context – On the institutional embeddedness of Islam in the Nordic countries sponsored by a NOS-HS Workshop Grant. The third seminar is on “Mosques\, communities and finance\,” in Oslo\, Norway\, August 2020. The purpose of the workshops is to investigate the dimensions of institutional embeddedness of Islam in the Nordic countries as mosques seek to be responsive institutions for the needs of Muslims\, challenged by economic\, legal and political alternatives. We are considering mosques as the focal point of Islam in economic\, legal and political terms\, the primary objective of this research project is to study the institutional strategies of mosques and Muslims in embedding Islam in the Nordic wider societies. The key here is to see to what extend mosques are responsive institutions for the needs of Muslim in soliciting the wider public\, or if Muslims go beyond the mosque in the pursuit of other more apt forms of institutionalized religious life such as invoking Islamic economic\, legal and political responses. We argue that the entire future of mosques depends on whether they can give and refine responsive and meaningful answers and make them coherent with the economic\, legal and politics questions that Muslims seek the answers to. As such\, this may result in the secularization of mosques as they negotiate and find their place in society. Will these new or re-interpreted institutional expressions clash with the general public\, will they fail Muslims or will they be viable alternatives for embedding Islam in the Nordic countries? \nA call for the workshop “Mosques\, communities and finance\,” in August 2020\, in Oslo\, Norway\, will be circulated in February\, 2020. \nOn behalf of the conveners \nBrian Arly Jacobsen\, assoc. professor\, Sociology of Religion\, University of Copenhagen\, Denmark Torkel Brekke\, Research Professor\, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)\, Norway Göran Larsson\, Professor in Religious Studies\, Göteborg University\, Sweden Niels Valdemar Vinding\, post.doc.\, Islamic Studies\, University of Copenhagen\, Denmark We are funded by a NOS-HS Workshop Grant as “Nordic Mosques in Context – On the institutional embeddedness of Islam in the Nordic countries” (Grant No. 2018-00085). URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-mosques-power-and-politics-workshop-22-24-january-2020-university-of-copenhagen/ LOCATION:LA CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191117 DTSTAMP:20191115T142020Z CREATED:20191114T141329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T142020Z UID:10001154-1573862400-1573948799@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies DESCRIPTION:The Symposium\, held at colleges in the University of Oxford\, is a forum for discourse and presentation of papers or commentaries by scholars\, students\, religious leaders\, and others who have an interest in issues related to religion and ethics. You may participate as an observer\, panel member or a presenter. \n We accept abstracts on a rolling basis and send notifications within a week of submission.\n Presenters are allocated 20 minutes to present followed by a ten-minute question session.\n Papers presented will be subsequently peer reviewed by external readers for possible inclusion in Symposium books or journal articles. (Optional)\n Conference Oxford has hundreds of affordable bedrooms in Oxford colleges available\, offering splendid views of college quadrangles and gardens. See our website for additional lodging and travel information. \nImportant dates: \nSUMMER Session\, 31 July–2 August\, at Harris Manchester College\nAbstract submission – 12 July\nRegular registration – 16 July \nAUTUMN Session\, 2–4 December\, at Green Templeton College\nAbstract submission – 16 November\nEarly registration – 2 September\nRegular registration – 20 November \nSPRING Session\, 26 –27 March 2020\, at The Queens College\nAbstract submission – 8 March\nEarly registration – 15 December\nRegular registration – 10 March \nPlease direct inquiries to info@oxfordsymposiumonreligiousstudies.com. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-oxford-symposium-on-religious-studies-2/ LOCATION:University of Oxford\, Oxford\, LA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191118 DTSTAMP:20191116T142253Z CREATED:20191114T141330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191116T142253Z UID:10001155-1573948800-1574035199@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies DESCRIPTION:Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies\nMonday 6th-Tuesday 7th April 2020\nThe Aga Khan University\, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations\n10 Handyside Street\, London\, N1C 4DN\nCall for Papers and Panels \nFollowing the success of its conferences in Edinburgh (2014)\, London (2015 and 2016)\, Chester (2017)\, Exeter (2018) and Nottingham (2019)\, the British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to invite proposals for individual papers\, or whole panels\, for its Seventh Annual Conference which will be hosted by the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations\, London. Papers and panels may be proposed by senior and early scholars from Professor to PhD level. \nIslamic Studies is broadly understood to include all topics and disciplinary approaches to the study of Islam and Muslim societies (majority and minority)\, across all time periods from the formative to the classical\, and pre-modern to the contemporary. Though not an exhaustive list\, papers are welcome\, for instance\, on the following: \n Art\, Architecture and Material Culture in the Muslim world\n Diversity within Islam and Islamic Studies\n Economy\, Marketing and Finance\n Education\n Gender Studies\n Hadith Studies\n History\, Intellectual History\, History of Science\n Interreligious Relations\n Law\n Literature\, Media and Cultural Studies including Postcolonial Studies\n Muslims in Africa and Asia\n Muslims in Britain/Europe/North America and other minority contexts\n Philosophy\, Theology and Ethics\n Qur’anic and Tafsir Studies\n Representations of Islam and Muslims\n Sociology\, Anthropology and Political Science\n Sufism and Mysticism \nAn Inclusive Conference \nBRAIS is committed to the principles of equality\, diversity and inclusivity. We welcome papers from scholars of all backgrounds and will work hard to ensure that BRAIS 2020 is a welcoming environment where everyone feels valued and supported. \nSubmitting Your Paper Proposal \nYour paper proposal should be submitted via the online submission form which is available HERE. \nIn addition to information about yourself\, you will need to provide a paper title and an abstract. Abstracts should not exceed 200 words and must be written in English. \nSubmitting Your Panel Proposal \nBRAIS particularly welcomes proposals for whole panels curated around certain themes or methodologies. Panels will ideally include four individual papers\, but panels of three individual papers will also be considered. \nYour panel proposal should be submitted via the online submission form which is available HERE. \nWe will require contact details\, paper titles and abstracts for all papers submitted as part of the panel. \nThe panel should be submitted by the panel Chair who will be contacted by BRAIS once a decision has been made about your panel. \nSubmission Deadline \nThe deadline for submissions is midnight GMT on Sunday 17th November 2019. \nPhD Fee Waivers \nA number of fee waivers will be available for UK-based PhD students whose papers are accepted for the BRAIS 2020 conference. Details of how to apply for fee waivers will be emailed to all those whose papers have been accepted for the conference. \nAny Questions? \nIf you have any questions\, please contact the Conference Committee on: brais@ed.ac.uk. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-annual-conference-of-the-british-association-for-islamic-studies/ LOCATION:The Aga Khan University\, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations\, LA CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191201 DTSTAMP:20191129T160820Z CREATED:20191114T141331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191129T160820Z UID:10001169-1575072000-1575158399@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: "The Ecology of Institutional Transplants in the Muslim World" Conference\,University of Vienna\, Austria (10-11 Feb 2020 | Vienna\, Austria) DESCRIPTION:The Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College is looking to hire a part-time Affiliated Faculty to fill one History course opening for the Spring 2020 semester\, January 14-May 1\, 2020. The course is HI204 Islam in the World. HI204 Islam in the World pursues an interdisciplinary study of the origins of … Continue reading Call for Applications: Affiliated Faculty (Part-Time)\, Emerson College URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-the-ecology-of-institutional-transplants-in-the-muslim-world-conferenceuniversity-of-vienna-austria-10-11-feb-2020-vienna-austria/ LOCATION:University of Vienna\, Vienna\, Austria CATEGORIES:Applications,Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities ORGANIZER;CN="Professor Ebrahim Afsah%2C Chair for Islamic Law and Ethics%2C Department of Public International Law%2C Faculty of Law%2C University of Vienna":MAILTO:leonard.soldo@univie.ac.at END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191202 DTSTAMP:20191130T161016Z CREATED:20191114T141331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191130T161016Z UID:10001173-1575158400-1575244799@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Historians of Islamic Art Association Biennial Symposium ( 29 Oct-1 Nov\, 2020 | University of Michigan) DESCRIPTION:The Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College is looking to hire a part-time Affiliated Faculty to fill one History course opening for the Spring 2020 semester\, January 14-May 1\, 2020. The course is HI204 Islam in the World. HI204 Islam in the World pursues an interdisciplinary study of the origins of … Continue reading Call for Applications: Affiliated Faculty (Part-Time)\, Emerson College URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-historians-of-islamic-art-association-biennial-symposium-29-oct-1-nov-2020-university-of-michigan/ LOCATION:University of Michigan\, United States CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities GEO:43.556574;-83.994328 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191203 DTSTAMP:20191201T161900Z CREATED:20191114T141331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191201T161900Z UID:10001175-1575244800-1575331199@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop (7-8 Jun 2020 | UCLA School of Law) DESCRIPTION:New Book Symposium (New Translation of The Muwaṭṭaʾ) Dec 2019 | Online Forum The Program in Islamic Law has newly launched a Journal of Islamic Law\, which will host a first-time symposium on our forthcoming book publication: a translation of one of the earliest treatises on Islamic law\, Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ (by Mālik b. Anas in the 8th century)\, … Continue reading  New Book Symposium: New Translation of The Muwaṭṭaʾ\, The Program in Islamic Law\, Harvard Law School URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-law-and-humanities-junior-scholars-workshop-7-8-jun-2020-ucla-school-of-law/ LOCATION:UCLA School of Law CATEGORIES:Call for papers,digital humanities,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200102 DTSTAMP:20191206T085921Z CREATED:20191114T141332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191206T085921Z UID:10001182-1577836800-1577923199@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Applications: Professorship in Middle Eastern\, South Asian and African Studies\, Columbia University DESCRIPTION:Columbia University\, Middle Eastern\, South Asian and African Studies Assistant Professor in Islamicate South Asian Studies Institution Type:College / UniversityLocation:New York\, United StatesPosition:Assistant ProfessorThe Department of Middle Eastern\, South Asian\, and African Studies at Columbia University is seeking to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in South Asian studies with specialization in Islamicate cultures. Applications from scholars working in Urdu and a second South Asian language are especially welcome. As a transregional and interdisciplinary department MESAAS seeks applicants capable of bringing their work and interests into conversation with non-specialists both within the department and across the university. The successful candidate will be expected to sustain an active research and publication agenda\, to teach both broad courses for undergraduates as well as graduate seminars\, and to direct MA and PhD theses. MESAAS encourages applications from candidates whose research\, teaching\, and service to the field will contribute to the diversity of the department and the university.The review of applications will begin January 1\, 2020; the position will remain open until filled. On-campus interviews will take place in early spring. The appointment will begin on July 1\, 2020. The Ph.D. must be in hand by the appointment start date.Please visit our online application site (RAPS) at:http://pa334.peopleadmin.com/postings/4315for further information about this position and to submit your application. Applicants should submit the following materials:• Cover letter explaining research and teaching interests• Curriculum vitae• One writing sample (of no more than 30 pages)• A list of three reference providers (who will be asked to upload letters onto RAPS)• List of courses taught or being developed\, along with one sample syllabusColumbia University is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-applications-professorship-in-middle-eastern-south-asian-and-african-studies-columbia-university/ LOCATION:Columbia University CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200109 DTSTAMP:20191206T085922Z CREATED:20191119T143933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191206T085922Z UID:10000933-1578441600-1578527999@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: "International Workshop ‘Media Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern Perspectives\,’" (12−13 March 2020 | Germany) DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers for the International Workshop ‘Media Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern Perspectives’08 JAN 2020SUBMISSION DEADLINEThe Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) in cooperation with the Institute of Oriental Studies\, University of Leipzig is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the international and interdisciplinary Workshop ‘Media Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern Perspectives’ in Germany at the Institute of Oriental Studies\, University of Leipzig\, 12 − 13 March 2020.Law and/in popular culture has been an emerging field of research (at least) since the 1980s. Its initial prominence was primarily limited to North America – the main hub of popular legal culture which\, through various kinds of movies and television shows\, impinged on what people generally believe about law and legal institutions. By now\, the interrelation of law and popular culture has made its way into European legal academia. In addition\, transnational comparative studies on how law and justice are portrayed in movies and fictional television dramas have been conducted\, providing additional insight for both scholars of law and media studies.At the same time\, the law and/in popular culture discourse has been largely restricted to Europe and North America. Research usually centers on ‘Western’ legal culture and its cinematic/televised representations. Oftentimes\, non-‘Western’ legal traditions and systems are only portrayed as supposed counter-examples to the liberal state under the rule of law that is promoted in dominant popular culture.The AGYA workshop on ‘Media Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern Perspectives’ moves away from this established regional focus by including Middle Eastern legal regimes and their respective local media depictions. We particularly invite contributions on Arabic-language cinematic and television formats (including those on more recent streaming services and social media sites) screening legal system in either contemporary or historical perspective. We also welcome papers on legal dramas from neighboring countries in the ‘Greater Middle East’\, as well as comparative studies to allow for broader transnational perspectives. By enabling a conversation not only between different regional sites of media production\, but also among various disciplines\, a range of analytical methods will be tested and employed to analyze the means and ends to which a legal system is portrayed in popular formats.Topics\, themes\, and issues to be explored include\, but are not confined to the following: Cultural representations of domestic legal systems and legal traditions in contemporary courtroom dramas; The political framework in which legal dramas are produced and its impact on both content and format; Audiences\, viewers\, and their changing perceptions of the law; The impact of satellite TV and online streaming services on legal dramas\, their production\, and content; Plots\, characters\, and sociopolitical critique in legal dramas.The workshop is organized by AGYA member Lena-Maria Möller (Institute of Oriental Studies\, University of Leipzig/Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law\, Hamburg) and AGYA alumna Hanan Badr (Institute for Media and Communication Studies\, Freie Universität Berlin). Travel costs and accommodation for confirmed speakers will be covered by AGYA. Funding is still subject to approval.Those interested in presenting papers are invited to send a tentative title\, an abstract of around 300-500 words\, and a short biography to Lena-Maria Möller (moeller@mpipriv.de) by 08 January 2020.Notifications of acceptance will be announced by 15 January 2020 and draft papers will be due by 15 February 2020. The workshop language will be English. The organizers aim to publish the papers either as an edited volume or as a special issue of an academic journal. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-international-workshop-media-representations-of-law-and-justice-middle-eastern-perspectives-12%e2%88%9213-march-2020-germany/ CATEGORIES:Call for papers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200116 DTSTAMP:20191206T085922Z CREATED:20191114T141332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191206T085922Z UID:10001188-1579046400-1579132799@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Proposals: Colophons in Middle Eastern Manuscripts Workshop (12-13 Jun\, 2020 | Princeton) DESCRIPTION:Colophons in Middle Eastern Manuscripts WorkshopVenue Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton (White Levy Room)Date: June 12–13\, 2020Conveners: Sabine Schmidtke and George A. Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Study)The colophon\, the ultimate or “crowing touch” paragraphs of a manuscript\, provides readers with a the historical context in which the scribe produced the manuscript. At its most fundamental level\, the colophon gives us the “metadata” of the manuscript: who was the scribe? When and where was the manuscript produced? For whom was it produced and who paid for it?But colophons are far more rich. They are literary works on their own right\, having a style and rhetoric independent of the main literary text of the manuscript. In addition\, colophons provide historical facts otherwise lost to histories: wars\, earthquakes\, religious events\, etc.The aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars from various disciplines to study colophons in Middle Eastern manuscripts in various languages\, including\, but not limited to\, Arabic\, Armenian\, Coptic\, Ethiopian\,* Hebrew\, Persian\, and Syriac. Topics may include: The colophon as a literary genre. Typology of colophons. The formulaic structure of colophons. Factoids found in colophons. How can colophons or confirm help us reconstruct historical events? Colophons born in print publications or born digital.Scholars interested in participating may send via email a proposal between 750 and 1\,000 words. Proposals are to focus on the colophon (i.e. not a study of the main literary text of the manuscript). Comparative analyses across traditions is encouraged but not required.Submission deadline is January 15\, 2020. Submissions are to be sent via email directly to George A. Kiraz at gkiraz@ias.edu.Scholars are expected to fund their travel to/from and accommodation in Princeton. The Institute will provide meals and a conference celebratory dinner. Speakers will be invited to contribute to a collected volume on an agreed-upon theme. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-proposals-colophons-in-middle-eastern-manuscripts-workshop-12-13-jun-2020-princeton/ LOCATION:Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton (White Levy Room) CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200122 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200125 DTSTAMP:20191206T085922Z CREATED:20191115T142022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191206T085922Z UID:10000930-1579651200-1579910399@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Workshop: “Mosques\, power and politics” (22-24 January 2020\, University of Copenhagen) DESCRIPTION:Workshop Programme “Mosques\, power and politics” Copenhagen\, Denmark 22-24 January 2020 Venue: University of Copenhagen\, South Campus Karen Blixens Plads 8\, 2300 Copenhagen\, Denmark Workshop theme:For this workshop we address the changing politics of mosque building\, the different kinds of conflict surrounding the building of a mosque and the symbolic appropriation of territory by the mosque. The building of a mosque can be seen as a social transformative interaction and accounts for the many stakeholders involved in the construction of mosques (e.g.\, Muslim organizations\, international donors\, local politicians\, anti-Islam groups and other critics). As such\, the mosques and the politics of construction can be seen as microcosms of the discourse on Muslims in a country.Concerns with security\, extremism and visibility of Muslim institutions in the Nordic and Western European countries are causing “existential” difficulties for mosques. The state criticizes mosques and change the politics of religion with reference to incidents in mosques as in Denmark in 2016-18. This seminar will examine the power strategies used by national and local politicians\, examining national legislation and municipal planning on mosques\, and will investigate a number of concrete cases of contested mosque building. The operable questions are what are the political power dynamics at play in mosque building? Do the mosques challenge the existing models of state-religion-relations? How may mosques present and organize themselves to defuse these tensions of power?Paper abstracts of 300 words and a short CV to be submitted to Niels Valdemar Vinding\, lbm993@hum.ku.dk\, on November 15th 2019 at the latest.Read more on: https://mosques.ku.dk/nordic-mosques/ 2ExpensesThe project covers reasonable expenses from transport. Hotel and meals are already booked. Please contact Niels Valdemar Vinding\, lbm993@hum.ku.dk\, if you have expenses.Workshop seriesThis is the second in a series of three workshops on Nordic Mosques in Context – On the institutional embeddedness of Islam in the Nordic countries sponsored by a NOS-HS Workshop Grant. The third seminar is on “Mosques\, communities and finance\,” in Oslo\, Norway\, August 2020. The purpose of the workshops is to investigate the dimensions of institutional embeddedness of Islam in the Nordic countries as mosques seek to be responsive institutions for the needs of Muslims\, challenged by economic\, legal and political alternatives. We are considering mosques as the focal point of Islam in economic\, legal and political terms\, the primary objective of this research project is to study the institutional strategies of mosques and Muslims in embedding Islam in the Nordic wider societies. The key here is to see to what extend mosques are responsive institutions for the needs of Muslim in soliciting the wider public\, or if Muslims go beyond the mosque in the pursuit of other more apt forms of institutionalized religious life such as invoking Islamic economic\, legal and political responses. We argue that the entire future of mosques depends on whether they can give and refine responsive and meaningful answers and make them coherent with the economic\, legal and politics questions that Muslims seek the answers to. As such\, this may result in the secularization of mosques as they negotiate and find their place in society. Will these new or re-interpreted institutional expressions clash with the general public\, will they fail Muslims or will they be viable alternatives for embedding Islam in the Nordic countries?A call for the workshop “Mosques\, communities and finance\,” in August 2020\, in Oslo\, Norway\, will be circulated in February\, 2020.On behalf of the convenersBrian Arly Jacobsen\, assoc. professor\, Sociology of Religion\, University of Copenhagen\, Denmark Torkel Brekke\, Research Professor\, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)\, Norway Göran Larsson\, Professor in Religious Studies\, Göteborg University\, Sweden Niels Valdemar Vinding\, post.doc.\, Islamic Studies\, University of Copenhagen\, Denmark We are funded by a NOS-HS Workshop Grant as “Nordic Mosques in Context – On the institutional embeddedness of Islam in the Nordic countries” (Grant No. 2018-00085). URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-mosques-power-and-politics-22-24-january-2020-university-of-copenhagen/ LOCATION:University of Copenhagen\, South Campus Karen Blixens Plads 8\, 2300 Copenhagen\, Denmark CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200207 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200208 DTSTAMP:20191206T085922Z CREATED:20191126T153225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191206T085922Z UID:10001201-1581033600-1581119999@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Thirteenth International Junior Faculty Forum (Oct 2020 | Stanford Law School) DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers: Thirteenth International Junior Faculty Forum\, Stanford Law SchoolSponsored by Stanford Law School\, the International Junior Faculty Forum (IJFF) was established to stimulate the exchange of ideas and research among younger legal scholars from around the world. We live today in a global community– in particular\, a global legal community. The IJFF is designed to foster transnational legal scholarship that surmounts barriers of time\, space\, legal traditions and cultures\, and to create an engaged global community of scholars. The Thirteenth IJFF will be held at Stanford Law School in fall 2020 (the exact date has not yet been fixed; but it will probably be in October).In order to be considered for the 2020 International Junior Faculty Forum\, authors must meet the following criteria: Citizen of a country other than the United States Current academic institution is outside of the United States Not currently a student in the United States Have held a faculty position or the equivalent\, including positions comparable to junior faculty positions in research institutions\, for less than seven years as of 2020; and Last degree earned less than ten years before 2020.Papers may be on any legally relevant subject and can make use of any relevant approach: they can be quantitative or qualitative\, sociological\, anthropological\, historical\, or economic. The host institution is committed to intellectual\, methodological\, and regional diversity\, and welcomes papers from junior scholars from all parts of the world. Please note\, however\, that already published papers are not eligible for consideration. We particularly welcome work that is interdisciplinary.Those who would like to participate in the IJFF must first submit an abstract of the proposed paper. Abstracts should be no more than two (2) pages long and must be in English. The abstract should provide a roadmap of your paper—it should tell us what you plan to do\, lay out the major argument of the paper\, say something about the methodology\, and indicate the paper’s contribution to scholarship. The due date for abstracts is Friday\, February 7\, 2020\, although earlier submissions are welcome. To submit your abstract\, please complete our abstract submission form. Abstracts must have the name of the author(s) and title of the abstract on the document that is submitted to be considered for the forum.After the abstracts have been reviewed\, we will invite\, no later than the end of March 2020\, a number of junior scholars to submit full papers of no more than 15\,000 words\, electronically\, in English\, by a deadline of approximately mid-May 2020. Please include a word count for final papers. There is no fixed number of papers to be invited\, but in the past years\, up to 50 invitations have been issued from among a much larger number of abstracts.An international committee of legal scholars will review the papers and select a small number of them\, but at least seven\, for full presentation at the conference\, where two senior scholars will comment on each paper. After the remarks of the commentators\, all of the participants\, junior and senior alike\, will have a chance to join in the discussion. One of the most valuable—and enjoyable—aspects of the Forum\, in the opinion of many participants\, has been the chance to meet junior and senior scholars and to talk about your work and theirs.Participants are encouraged to seek funding from their home institutions. In default\, Stanford will cover expenses of travel\, including airfare\, lodging\, and food for participants. Questions about the forum should be directed to ijff@law.stanford.edu. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-thirteenth-international-junior-faculty-forum-oct-2020-stanford-law-school/ CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities ORGANIZER;CN="International Junior Faculty Forum%2C Stanford Law School":MAILTO:ijff@law.stanford.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200215 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200216 DTSTAMP:20200208T200110Z CREATED:20200208T200110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200208T200110Z UID:10001207-1581724800-1581811199@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Proposals: "Ibadi Manuscripts in European & North American Libraries” (24-25 Apr | Lviv\, Ukraine) DESCRIPTION:Second Workshop on Ibadi Manuscripts & Manuscript CulturesOrganizers of the Second Annual Workshop on Ibadi Manuscripts & Manuscript Cultures\, “Ibadi Manuscripts in European and North American Libraries\,” are pleased to announce a call for participants. The workshop will be held in Lviv\, Ukraine on 24-25 April 2020\, and the deadline for proposals is 15 February 2020.Details can be found in Arabic\, English\, and French at: https://ibadistudies.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/lviv_ibadi_mss_cfp_2020.pdf URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-proposals-ibadi-manuscripts-in-european-north-american-libraries-24-25-apr-lviv-ukraine/ LOCATION:Ivan Franko National University in Lviv Ukraine CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200218 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200219 DTSTAMP:20200208T200110Z CREATED:20200208T200110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200208T200110Z UID:10001208-1581984000-1582070399@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Middle East Studies Association 54th Annual Meeting (10-12 Oct | Washington\, DC) DESCRIPTION:MESA’S 54th ANNUAL MEETINGCall for PapersDeadline: February 18\, 2020The Middle East Studies Association calls for submissions from members for its 54th annual meeting to be held October 10-13\, 2020 in Washington\, DC.All submissions must be made through myMESA\, MESA’s membership and electronic submissions system. The system is now open and closes at midnight (Mountain Standard Time) on February 18\, 2020.Questions about the submission process are always welcome. Please email Kat Kassanitz at kat@mesana.org.Please be reminded that MESA membership is a requirement to submit a proposal. To renew your 2020 membership\, login to myMESA or use the attached form. Contact Sara Palmer at sara@mesana.org with questions about membership. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-middle-east-studies-association-54th-annual-meeting-10-12-oct-washington-dc/ CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200220 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200221 DTSTAMP:20200208T200111Z CREATED:20200208T200111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200208T200111Z UID:10000940-1582156800-1582243199@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: "Dissenting Voices: The Making\, Debating\, and Shaping of Law" (16-17 Sep | University of Liège) DESCRIPTION:Dissenting Voices: The Making\, Debating\, and Shaping of Law 16 and 17 September 2020 University of Liège Organizers:Sophie Andreetta (MPI for Social Anthropology/ULiège)Susanne Verheul (University of Oxford)Eugenia Relano Pastor (MPI for Social Anthropology)While laws\, reforms\, and public policies are often assumed to be coherent (Holm Vohnsen 2017)\, dissenting opinions\, contradicting trends in the jurisprudence\, and variations in daily administrative practices suggest otherwise. Breaking away from the assumption that legal regimes speak with one\, unanimous voice\, this workshop will explore the place and the role of dissenting voices in the way legality is constructed.Building on studies of legal professionals on the one hand (Andreetta & Kolloch 2018; Boigeol 1996 ; Bessière & Mille 2013 ; Budniok 2015; Oumarou 2014 ; Rubbers & Gallez 2015; Verheul 2013)\, and on the literature on litigation and judicial decision-making on the other (Dupret 2006 ; Gill & Good 2019 ; Good\, Berti & Tarabout 2015 ; Ben Hounet & Puccio-Den 2017 ; Colemans & Dupret 2018 ; Truffin & Laperche 2011 ; Simon & Truffin 2018)\, we aim to explore contradictions within\, resistance to\, and the telling of different\, potentially competing stories in legal proceedings\, texts\, or laws\, and the manner of their interpretation. How do legal professionals decide between different trends in the jurisprudence? How do they understand their role within\, or against the legal system? How do they relate to legal narratives\, and to the stories of law told by the state with which they might regularly work? This workshop will delve into competing understandings of professionalism\, interests at stake\, and narratives around legal work\, on the one hand\, and the way legal actors navigate\, or mobilize competing interpretations of legal texts\, on the other hand. It will also investigate how unanimous voices are challenged\, through cause-lawyering or strategic litigation for example\, and how dissenting opinions can sometimes gain traction and trigger shifts in the jurisprudence.We are particularly interested in three areas where dissenting voices might be heard: 1. the process of appointing the decision-makers; 2. the bureaucratic\, professional or political environment in which they make their decisions; and finally\, 3. the role of legal professionals’ discretion in legal procedures and judicial crafting.In relation to the appointment of legal decision-makers\, papers can examine the processes through which one becomes a judicial officer\, including training and education. Papers can further explore how are judges\, magistrates or prosecutors are selected by the bodies that control access to the profession. Do these processes give rise to any forms of dissent\, or advice on how to manage dissent? What does this tell us about the judicial profession\, and the wider socio-political context in which judicial officers operate? We particularly welcome papers that build on socio-historical perspectives\, and examine the way legal professions have been shaped within or across a variety of political contexts.Second\, to gain an understanding of how dissent works and circulates within the environment in which decisions are made\, we are interested in judges’ and prosecutors’ practical work routines\, the daily challenges they face\, and the way they deal with them. How do these actors define their role within the justice system? How do they frame their professional work ethics\, and how do they balance these with potentially competing everyday working conditions\, and social or political pressure?Third\, this workshop will interact with the (personal) values and norms judges and magistrates mobilize in order to come to their decisions. How do judges understand and interpret the law in specific cases? What kind of presumptions do they make\, or what sort of questions do they ask\, and why? How much room for dissent is there within the judiciary\, how is it perceived\, and what role do dissenting opinions play in the wider process of legal\, or political change? Building on the idea that law and litigation can be used as a tool to create social change\, contributions could further focus on the role of judges\, prosecutors\, or third-party interventions in advancing legal debates and legal production\, exploring how they make sense of “open” concepts or highly disputed issues such as human dignity\, ill-treatment or the superior interest of the child\, among others.This workshop finally aims to combine papers looking at a range of national\, and international courts\, and at the actors who play within\, or near those courts in order to achieve various social or political goals. How do different sets of actors mobilize the law and its institutions across civil or common law systems? What is the place of dissenting voices\, how are they expressed and what kind of effects do have on the construction of legality and jurisprudence?This 2-day workshop will bring together interested researchers (including those who are in the final stages of their PhD) from various disciplines (such as anthropology\, history\, socio-legal studies\, sociology\, and political science) to engage with the above and related questions. Discussions and findings from the workshop are intended for publication.To apply\, send a 250-word abstract\, a short biography\, and an indication of where you will be located in September 2020 to dissentingvoices2020@gmail.com by 20 February 2020. Funding may be available to cover participants’ travel expenses and accommodation; this is to be confirmed closer to the workshop date. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-dissenting-voices-the-making-debating-and-shaping-of-law-16-17-sep-university-of-liege/ LOCATION:University of Liège CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200308 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200309 DTSTAMP:20200208T200111Z CREATED:20200208T200111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200208T200111Z UID:10000945-1583625600-1583711999@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies DESCRIPTION:The Symposium\, held at colleges in the University of Oxford\, is a forum for discourse and presentation of papers or commentaries by scholars\, students\, religious leaders\, and others who have an interest in issues related to religion and ethics. You may participate as an observer\, panel member or a presenter. We accept abstracts on a rolling basis and send notifications within a week of submission. Presenters are allocated 20 minutes to present followed by a ten-minute question session. Papers presented will be subsequently peer reviewed by external readers for possible inclusion in Symposium books or journal articles. (Optional) Conference Oxford has hundreds of affordable bedrooms in Oxford colleges available\, offering splendid views of college quadrangles and gardens. See our website for additional lodging and travel information.Important dates:SUMMER Session\, 31 July–2 August\, at Harris Manchester CollegeAbstract submission – 12 JulyRegular registration – 16 JulyAUTUMN Session\, 2–4 December\, at Green Templeton CollegeAbstract submission – 16 NovemberEarly registration – 2 SeptemberRegular registration – 20 NovemberSPRING Session\, 26 –27 March 2020\, at The Queens CollegeAbstract submission – 8 MarchEarly registration – 15 DecemberRegular registration – 10 MarchPlease direct inquiries to info@oxfordsymposiumonreligiousstudies.com. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-oxford-symposium-on-religious-studies-3/ LOCATION:University of Oxford\, Oxford\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200308 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200309 DTSTAMP:20200208T200111Z CREATED:20200208T200111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200208T200111Z UID:10000946-1583625600-1583711999@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies\, Oxford University DESCRIPTION:SPRING Session 26 –27 March 2020 at The Queens College\, Oxford University The upcoming 17th International Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies is a forum for discourse and presentation of papers by scholars who have a particular interest in the study of religion. Canon Brian Mountford MBE\, former Vicar of St Mary’s Church and Fellow of St Hilda’s College in the University of Oxford\, will host the meeting.You are invited to make a presentation and lead a discussion of a relevant aspect of religious studies\, or you may wish to participate as a panel member or as an observer. Your disquisition must adhere to an abstract of about 300 words approved by the Programme Committee of the Symposium. You are also encouraged to submit a paper\, in keeping with your abstract\, which may be published in an appropriate journal or book of conference proceedings. All papers presented for publication or inclusion in books or sponsored journals will be subject to peer review by external readers.Abstract Submission and Registration is open for the Fall 2019 session and the Spring 2020 session of the Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies. Abstracts and Presentation Proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis and notifications sent within ten days of submission.Important dates:SPRING Session 26 –27 March 2020 at The Queens College\, Oxford UniversityAbstract submission  – 8 MarchEarly registration – 15 DecemberRegular registration – 10 March URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-oxford-symposium-on-religious-studies-oxford-university-2/ LOCATION:The Queens College\, Oxford University CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200308 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200309 DTSTAMP:20200208T200111Z CREATED:20200208T200111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200208T200111Z UID:10000947-1583625600-1583711999@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies\, Spring Session (26 –27 Mar | Oxford\, UK) DESCRIPTION:The Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies is a forum for discourse and presentation of papers by scholars who have a particular interest in the study of religion. Canon Brian Mountford MBE\, former Vicar of St Mary’s Church and Fellow of St Hilda’s College at the University of Oxford\, will host the 2020 sessions.You are invited to make a presentation and lead a discussion on an aspect of religious studies\, or you may wish to participate as a panel member or as an observer. Your disquisition must adhere to an abstract of about 300 words approved by the Programme Committee of the Symposium.You are also encouraged to submit a paper\, in keeping with your abstract\, which may be published in an appropriate journal or book of conference proceedings. All papers presented for publication or inclusion in books or sponsored journals will be subject to peer review by external readers. Attendees may participate as observers\, panel members and presenters of papers\, reports\, and commentaries concerning aspects relevant to the theory and practice of topics in religion and ethics. (Poster presentations are also welcome.) We accept abstracts on a rolling basis and return notifications within a week of submission. Presenters are allocated 20 minutes to present\, followed by a ten-minute question session. Optional: After the conclusion of the symposium\, participants may submit papers to be peer-reviewed by external readers for possible inclusion in Symposium Books or sponsored academic journals. Conference Oxford has hundreds of affordable bedrooms in Oxford colleges available\, offering splendid views of college quadrangles. See our website for lodging\, travel and other information.SPRING Session 26 –27 March 2020 at The Queen’s College\, Oxford UniversityAbstract submission  – 8 MarchEarly registration – 20 JanuaryRegular registration – 10 MarchPlease direct inquiries to info@oxfordsymposiumonreligiousstudies.com URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-oxford-symposium-on-religious-studies-spring-session-26-27-mar-oxford-uk/ LOCATION:The Queen’s College\, Oxford University CATEGORIES:Call for papers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200311 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200312 DTSTAMP:20200208T200111Z CREATED:20200208T200111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200208T200111Z UID:10000948-1583884800-1583971199@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: International Qur’anic Studies Association Annual Meeting 2020 (20-23 Nov | Boston\, MA) DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers: IQSA Annual Meeting 2020The International Qur’anic Studies Association has opened its call for papers for its Annual Meeting to be held in Boston\, Massachusetts from November 20–23\, 2020. Paper proposals should be submitted through the SBL’s automated online submission system under the corresponding “Affiliates” link by March 11\, 2019 (note: IQSA membership is required for proposal submission; see below). Submission links can be found below under the respective program units. If you require further information or experience difficulties with the submission process\, please contact the chairs of the program unit to which you would like to apply.Please note that all proposals must include: Author name and affiliation Paper title 400 word paper abstract (written in English)Eligibility for proposal submissions is contingent upon the following: Active IQSA membership is required at the time of proposal submission for the IQSA Program\, and the membership status of all applicants will be checked prior to acceptance Participants must maintain current IQSA Membership through their participation in the Annual MeetingPlease also note that: To ensure equity and diversity amongst participants\, participants should submit only one paper presentation per IQSA Annual Meeting All participants must adhere to IQSA’s Professional Conduct Policy Participants will be required to register for the conference by submitting payment through SBL’s online submission system (users are strongly encouraged to take advantage of the “Super Saver” rates which end mid-May)Please email contact@iqsaweb.org with questions or concerns. We look forward to seeing you in Boston!The Annual Meeting includes panels for each of IQSA’s eight program units:Linguistic\, Literary\, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic CorpusThe Societal Qur’anThe Qur’an and the Biblical TraditionThe Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual CriticismThe Qur’an: Surah StudiesThe Qur’an and Late AntiquityQur’anic Studies: Methodology and HermeneuticsQur’anic Exegesis: Unpublished and Recently Published tafsīr StudiesPROGRAM UNIT 1Linguistic\, Literary\, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic CorpusProgram Unit ChairsAnne-Sylvie BoisliveauMohsen GoudarziFor the 2020 meeting in Boston\, the Linguistic\, Literary\, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic Corpus Unit invites papers to an open session on any topic that engages linguistic\, literary\, or thematic features of the Qur’an.PROGRAM UNIT 2Societal Qur’anProgram Unit ChairsJohanna PinkThomas HoffmannThe Societal Qur’an unit invites proposals for papers that investigate the Qur’an in its lived and societal contexts throughout history\, from Late Antiquity to contemporary Late Modernity. Proposals are encouraged that engage with sociological\, anthropological\, and political science theories and methods in their pursuit of the societal and lived Qur’an. Papers might\, for instance\, discuss topics such as ritual and artistic uses of the Qur’an\, practices of teaching the Qur’an\, talismanic and medical uses of the Qur’an\, the production of manuscript\, print\, and new media versions of the Qur’an\, or the deployment of the Qur’an in terms of social identity and political organization.PROGRAM UNIT 3The Qur’an and the Biblical TraditionProgram Unit ChairsNora SchmidHolger ZellentinThe focus of this unit is the Qur’an’s relationship to the Biblical tradition in the broadest sense: the books of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament in the various languages of their original composition and later translations (regardless of a particular book’s status of canonization within specific Jewish or Christian groups)\, as well as the exegetical\, homiletic\, and narrative traditions of the Bible in written or oral form. For the 2020 meeting in Boston\, the Qur’an and the Biblical Tradition unit welcomes proposals that engage any aspect of the relationship between the Bible and the Qur’an.PROGRAM UNIT 4The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual CriticismProgram Unit ChairsAlba FedeliShady NasserThe aim of the Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism unit is to provide a cross-disciplinary setting for the exploration of the various interconnected issues that arise when questions concerning the Qur’an’s text are investigated through the prism of its manuscript tradition. This latter term encompasses the field of Qur’an manuscripts per se\, but also alludes to such information regarding the history of the text that can be gleaned from the citations\, marginal notes\, and detailed analysis provided in other branches of the Islamic sciences\, for example Qur’an commentaries and the qira’at literature. It is hoped that bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines will serve to enrich and strengthen each of these fields. The Manuscripts and Textual Criticism unit seeks to create a forum for the application of textual criticism to the Qur’anic text attested both in physical manuscripts and within the wider Islamic tradition. It also aims to investigate palaeographic\, codicological\, and art historical features in the Qur’an’s manuscript tradition.For the 2022 meeting in Boston\, the unit welcomes papers on any topic within the range of the interests of the Manuscripts and Textual Criticism program unit.PROGRAM UNIT 5The Qur’an: Surah StudiesProgram Unit ChairsNevin RedaShawkat ToorawaThe Surah Studies Unit invites proposals for individual papers on any aspect of Surat al-An‘am (6\, ‘Livestock’)\, which has attracted little attention in Western scholarship.  One of the seven long ones (al-sab‘ al-tiwal)\, it is a polythematic Meccan surah of 165 verses. Proposals might explore: material relating to Abraham or to Moses; engagement with Biblical laws or the Decalogue; its devotional uses\, especially in Shiite liturgy; its important passages on dietary law; its polemic and critique of pagan rituals; its legal minimalism; rhyme and acoustics; depictions of non-human animals; its architecture and traces of compositional procedures; its affinities with Medinan surahs; or much else besides. The Surah Studies Unit encourages and welcomes diverse methods and approaches. The raison d’etre of the Unit is to bring different perspectives on a given sura into dialogue with one another.PROGRAM UNIT 6The Qur’an and Late AntiquityProgram Unit ChairsMichael PregillJohanne ChristiansenThe Qur’an and Late Antiquity program unit invites proposals that utilize various types of material or evidence—be that literary\, documentary\, or epigraphic—to illuminate the historical context in which the Qur’an was revealed and the early Islamic polity emerged. We are especially interested in papers that present and discuss comparative methodologies to contribute to a better understanding of the Qur’an’s place in the cultural\, political\, social\, and religious environment of Late Antiquity.Additionally\, for the 2020 Annual Meeting in Boston\, we seek proposals for a themed session considering the state of the field on the Jews in the prophetic milieu and early Islam.PROGRAM UNIT 7Qur’anic Studies: Methodology and HermeneuticsProgram Unit ChairsKhalil AndaniKaren BauerThis unit aims to understand and contextualize the methods and hermeneutics applied to the Qur’anic text\, both historical and contemporary. The Methodology and Hermeneutics unit addresses questions that might implicitly govern other units\, such as: What is Qur’anic Studies\, and how does the study of the Qur’an differ from the study of its interpretation? What are the methodological differences between descriptive and normative approaches to the text? How does context (intellectual\, social\, ethical\, historical) affect hermeneutical approaches to the text? The unit welcomes papers addressed to the hermeneutics and methods of particular schools of interpretation or thought\, and also on hermeneutics as applied to specific subjects or concepts such as social justice and gender.This year the Methodology and Hermeneutics unit will feature a pre-arranged panel that surveys Muslim engagements with the Qur’an from the classical and post-classical periods that focus on different visions of the Qur’an as a revelatory discourse and its major themes.The Unit also invites submissions for a second panel on any aspect of Qur’anic interpretation\, hermeneutics\, and methodology. Proposals can focus on\, among other topics\, the following areas: The overlaps and distinctions between tafsīr and ta’wīl in exoteric and esoteric Qur’an commentary literature as they have evolved historically; The distinctive hermeneutical features of Qur’anic exegesis performed by minority Muslim communities including Sufi and Shi‘i (Twelver\, Ismaili\, Nusayri) commentators; How the Muslim Peripatetics (falasifa)\, such as Avicenna\, have engaged with the Qur’an through Aristotelian and Neoplatonic lenses; The unique hermeneutical approaches of Muslim modernist thinkers in the 19th and 20th centuries; Interpretative engagements with the Qur’an from thinkers in South Asia and Southeastern Asia.Any other topic that deals with Qur’anic hermeneutics is welcome.PROGRAM UNIT 8Qur’anic Exegesis: Unpublished and Recently Published tafsīr StudiesProgram Unit ChairShady NasserThis exploratory panel is dedicated to exploring Qurʾānic exegetical works (tafsīr proper or otherwise) that were recently published or still in manuscript form. The goal of the panel is to shed light on these works of tafsīr that have not got enough scholarly attention\, and which fall outside the “familiar” canon of Muslim exegetical works often used in modern scholarship. This panel encourages scholars to consult and study these recent publications in order to enrich our understanding of Qurʾānic exegesis and widen our perspectives with a more holistic and comprehensive view of tafsīr studies that fall outside the traditional sources often used.For the 2020 annual meeting\, the unit welcomes papers on any topic within the range of the interests of unpublished and recently published tafsīr works. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-international-quranic-studies-association-annual-meeting-2020-20-23-nov-boston-ma/ CATEGORIES:Applications,Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200313 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200314 DTSTAMP:20200208T200112Z CREATED:20200208T200112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200208T200112Z UID:10001211-1584057600-1584143999@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Submissions: Preyer Award\, American Society for Legal History DESCRIPTION:Call for Submissions:  Preyer Award. American Society for Legal HistorySubmissions are welcome on any topic in legal\, institutional and/or constitutional history. Early career scholars\, including those pursuing graduate or law degrees\, those who have completed their terminal degree within the previous year\, and those independent scholars at a comparable stage\, are eligible to apply. At the annual meeting of the Society two early career legal historians designated Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars will present what would normally be their first papers to the Society. While papers simultaneously submitted to the ASLH Program committee are eligible\, Preyer Award winners must present their paper as part of the Preyer panel and will be removed from any other panel.Submissions should be a single MS Word document consisting of a complete curriculum vitae\, contact information\, and a complete draft of the paper to be presented. Papers should not exceed 50 pages (12 point font\, double-spaced) and must contain supporting documentation. In past competitions\, the Committee has given preference to draft articles and essays\, though the Committee will also consider shorter conference papers\, as one of the criteria for selection will be the suitability of the paper for reduction to a twenty-minute oral presentation. The deadline for submission is MARCH 13\, 2020.  The two Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars will receive a $500 cash award and reimbursement of expenses up to $750 for travel\, hotels\, and meals. Each will present the paper that s/he submitted to the competition at the Society’s annual meeting. The Society’s journal\, Law and History Review\, has published several past winners of the Preyer competition\, though it is under no obligation to do so.Named after the late Kathryn T. Preyer\, a distinguished historian of the law of early America known for her generosity to early career legal historians\, the program of Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars is designed to help legal historians at the beginning of their careers. At the annual meeting of the Society two early career legal historians designated Kathryn T. Preyer Scholars will present what would normally be their first papers to the Society. The generosity of Professor Preyer’s friends and family has enabled the Society to offer a small honorarium to the Preyer Scholars and to reimburse\, in some measure or entirely\, their costs of attending the meeting. The competition for Preyer Scholars is organized by the Society’s Kathryn T. Preyer Memorial Committee.Please send submissions by March 13\, 2020 to Laura Kalman\, Chair\, Preyer Award Committee\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, kalman@history.ucsb.edu.  She will forward them to other committee members.(Cross-posted from the Legal History Blog). URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-submissions-preyer-award-american-society-for-legal-history/ CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR